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Puritanism
The belifes and practices of people who follow very strict moral and religious rules about the proper way to behave and live.Thinkers and writers of the period valued reasons of faith. -
To My Dear & Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
This is a more personal, expressing her feelings about joy and difficulties of everyday Puritan life. Her poerty reflected on Puritans' knowledge on the Bible. -
Sinners in Hands of angry God by Jonathan Edwards
Edwards uses over the top words, just to scare people into being religious, since Puritanism was like the only religion back then. Then Edwards comes along telling people they are going to hell, people beleived him and decided to ban wagon. -
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Rationalism
The influence of science and logic, this period is marked in U.S literature by political writings, like political documents, speeches and letters.There is a lack of emphasis and dependence on the Bible and more common sense and science. -
Speech to Virginia Convection by Patrick Henry
Henry, with his powerful words persuade the colonist to enter the war against Britian.
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Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence was the the break up letter the Amercian colonist send to England to again our independence from them. Jefferson with his writing marked the U.S with his political writing. Leading us to the Revoulationary War to fight for our independence.
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from the American Crisis by Thomas Paine
Thomas was a poweful writer, he uses logic to explain his arguments in "the crisis" about how America must defend itself from the claming its independece from Britian. That they must fight for it and remain strong to be able to achieve what they want.
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Speech in the convention by Benjamin Franklin
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The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
Irving influence romanticism with his emphasis on nature, the supernatural and superstition in his stories.
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Romanticism
In Romanticism believed that intuition, imagination, and emotion marked a clearer route to truth than reason alone. -
from Nature; Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature-1836, Self-Reliance-1841
This essay contains Emerson's theme, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistencyand follow his/her own instincts and ideas. -
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Many of his stories genres are science fiction, horror, and fantasty.Poe was one of the earliest american writers to focus on the short story and is credited with inventing the fiction genre. -
Poetry collection by Emily Dickinson
Emily influenced American Romanticism, with her questioning of life's meaning, writing form nature to religion, -
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthrones novels have been considered the fisrt American psychological tales. The Scarlet Letter is one of his most famous works, because it takes a personal and in depth look into human morality,quilt, protection and the importance of shielding the individual from the harsh external world. -
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Melville's work is believed to be optimistic and egotistical and reactedby modifing them in their prose and poetry workd that it subgenre that was Dark Romanticism. -
from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's work is part of personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery and manual for self-reliance, which details his experience over the course of two years. -
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
In Whitman's poerty collection emphasis on nature and the individual human's role in it. He elevates the human form and the human mind making them worthy of poetic praise. -
The Tides Rises, The Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This peom describes how Henry view of life was somewhat sad.
Henry influenced American's artistic and popular culture.
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Naturalism
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Naturalism
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The Adventures of Huckle Berry Finn by Mark Twain
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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Call of The WIld by Jack London
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Waqner Matinee by Willa Cather
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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We wear the mask By: Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Uncovers the strategies early African American writers used both to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to white readers. -
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Modernism
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The Road not taken By: Robert Frost
Frost had met another poet and that poet would always complain that he should have taken another path. After that Frost moved to the U.S and World War I began. -
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Harlem Renaissance
A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished. -
The Wasteland By: T.S Eliot
Aout the psychological and cultural crisis that came with the loss of moral and cultural identity after World War I. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century" -
The Great Gatsby By:F.Scott Fitzgerald
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As I lay dying By: William Faulkner
At the time, Faulkner’s novel contributed substantially to the growing Modernist movement. He was no doubt influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud -
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
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I Too By: Langston Hughes
Therefore, Langston Hughes took the initiative to speak his mind that African Americans were not accepted. Blacks were discriminated against, killed violently, separated from using the same facilities and being in the same place as whites, just to name a few. -
Their eyes were watching God By: Zore Neale Hurston
the writer writes about her experience during the segregation o social and political inequality between black Americans and Caucasian Americans as well as the inequality between men and women. It ris written as a reflection -
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback
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Native Son By: Richard Wright
The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty -
For whom the Bell Tolls By: Ernest Hemingway
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Postmodernism
Style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism -
Catcher in Rye By: J.D Salinger
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A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
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Invisible Man By: Richard Wright
highly regarded styles of Naturalism and Realism too limiting to speak to the broader issues of race and America, Ellison created an open style, one that did not restrict his ideas to a movement but was more free-flowing in its delivery. -
The Crucible By: Arthur Miller
when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists.[1] Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 -
A Good Man is Hard To FInd by Flannery O'Conner
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Old age sticks By: E.E Cummings
it's about differences between old age and youth.The two are in conflict. Old age stands for limits while the youth believe in limitless freeoms. Cummings wanted to show the gap between the youth and old -
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Beloved By: Toni Morrison
it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who temporarily escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, a free state -
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
